Stoney Royd Cemetery, Halifax, features many war graves as well as a memorial (Picture: Tim Green) Below, many of the earlier registers feature excellent detail including occupations, parents’ names, together with full names, addresses and otherdetails of the deceased.

As well as digital scans of registers, the records available on Deceased Online for Stoney Royd and Sowerby Bridge cemeteries also include grave details, indicating all those buried in each grave, and section maps indicating the cemetery section where each grave is located.

Emma Jolly’s latest blog takes a look at the history of these sites and their records and particularly why the two cemetery additions bear their names.

He has been involved in genealogy for more than 35 years. He
has worked in the computer industry for more than 40 years in hardware,
software, and managerial positions. By the early 1970s, Dick was already
using a mainframe computer to enter his family data on punch cards. He
built his first home computer in 1980.